Kate Farrish, Central Connecticut State
CCN Faculty Champion
Center for Community News
BIO
Kate Farrish is an assistant professor of journalism at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches newswriting and editing. She also spent 23 years at the Hartford Courant, where she was a higher education writer, bureau chief and city editor, and she taught newswriting at the University of Connecticut Journalism Department for 10 years. She is a graduate of the UConn Journalism Department and earned a master’s degree in digital communications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She is president of the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government (CFOG) and serves on the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission.
Bio
Kate Farrish is an assistant professor of journalism at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches newswriting and editing. She also spent 23 years at the Hartford Courant, where she was a higher education writer, bureau chief and city editor, and she taught newswriting at the University of Connecticut Journalism Department for 10 years. She is a graduate of the UConn Journalism Department and earned a master’s degree in digital communications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She is president of the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government (CFOG) and serves on the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission.